Aptana

C, C++ and Python development is something I have done for a while over the past few years now with some professional and academic experience. This has seen me through a lot of projects but now the time has come to expand to web technologies! I’m already good with HTML and CSS so the next step is JavaScript and jQuery, to do this I’m going to need a new integrated development environment (IDE).

Its a fully featured web development IDE that’s based on Eclipse, which if you’ve read my previous posts you will already know it is my preferred IDE.

Aptana suppports HTML, CSS and JavaScript code assistance along with PHP and Ruby, an integrated debugger for Ruby and JavaScript and also git integration if you use git for your project management.
Oh and a fair bit more. It also has the decent dark background, eerie colour scheme that I and so many others enjoy when developing.

I will write up a proper review and how-to once I’ve had time to give it a proper test run and put it through its paces, but first I’m going to need to learn some JavaScript! 🙂